| International Standard Book Number |
9780593701539
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| International Standard Book Number |
9780593701522
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| International Standard Book Number |
0593701526
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| Dewey Decimal Classification Number |
302.23/1
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| Personal Name |
Vara, Vauhini, 1982- author.
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| Title Statement |
Searches : selfhood in the digital age / Vauhini Vara.
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| Edition Statement |
First hardcover edition.
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| Imprint |
?20
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| Imprint |
New York : Pantheon Books, 2025.
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| Physical Description |
x, 334 pages : black and white illustrations ; 25
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| General Note |
Pantheon Books, a division of Penguin Random House L
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| Formatted Contents Note |
Your whole life will be searchable -- Searches -- I gifted it to them -- A great deal -- We can all connect and share -- Elon Musk, empire -- Stealing great ideas -- I am hungry to talk -- We have to do a magic trick -- Ghosts -- Record the world -- Resurrections -- Thank you for your important work -- Penumbra -- The master's tools -- What is it like to be aliv
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| Summary, Etc. |
"From the author of The Immortal King Rao, finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, a personal and provocative exploration of how technology companies have reshaped human language, and, if we let them, could steal it from us. When it was released to the public in November 2022, ChatGPT awakened the world to a secretive project: teaching A.I.-powered machines to write and talk like human beings. Its creators had a sweeping ambition-to get machines to communicate for us. But if this came to pass, would it be liberation or subjugation? Vauhini Vara, an award-winning tech journalist and editor, had long been grappling with this question. In 2021, she used a predecessor of ChatGPT to write about her sister's death, resulting in an essay that was both more moving and more disturbing than she could have imagined. It quickly went viral. The experience, revealing both the appeal and the danger of corporate-owned language machines, forced Vara to interrogate how technology has changed how she uses language, from discovering online chat rooms as a preteen, to using social media as the Wall Street Journal's first Facebook reporter, to testing early versions of ChatGPT-all while adding to the trove of human-created material that Big Tech exploits. Interspersed throughout this investigation are her own Google searches, Amazon reviews, and the other raw material of Internet life-including the viral A.I. experiment that started it all. Searches illuminates Big Tech's incursion into our lives, while proposing that by harnessing the collective imagination that taught us to communicate in the first place, we might invent a nobler, freer relationship with our machines and, ultimately, with one another"-- Provided by publishe
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| Subject-Personal Name |
Vara, Vauhini, 1982-
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| Subject |
ChatGP
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Sel
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Internet searching Social aspect
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Chatbots Social aspect
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Disclosure of informatio
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Natural language generation (Computer scienc
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Recherche sur Internet Aspect socia
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Divulgation d'information
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G?en?eration automatique de
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. 6 Moi (Psycho
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| Added Entry, Corporate Name |
) 2 Pantheon Books, publ
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